Originally Posted by TBM
Looks a very similar model to mine.

I must admit, I used to be a bit sniffy about Harleys, and was definitely not a fan of the 'lifestyle' - Harley pants, socks and aftershave etc.

However, as I've got older I've got bored of cleaning and balancing multiple carbs, and fannying about with complexities of newer bikes, and craved the agricultural simplicity offered by Harley.

I'm not going to get rid of my hooligan ZX10 but find myself using it less and less.......

TBM, entirely with you on the Harley lifestyle accoutrements, but it was the overspill of the desire to extract as much cash out of their "followers" that got to me a tad more. The protection of the brand in terms of HOG was perhaps the first thing that caused me to sit up, I had been reading of Harley marketing by way of supplying machines with very basic, if not underperforming brakes, possible less than ideal carburation and offering better brakes and carburettor performant parts, under the Screaming Eagle branding....Well that is how it appeared to me and truth be told the twin disc set up on the bike in the pic had less stopping power than the little front drum brake on the B40 that I bought at the time as a born again biker..... As a yoof I ever preferred Nortons both vintage and right up to the 850 Commando, which I did more than a few laps round the IOM on, though later in my 50`s the little B40 was a fun tester to help me decide whether or not I wanted to get back into biking, and ended my biking riding my BMW R80R, which was found to be a very capable machine and in all weathers, even snow.. Once a biker, always a biker at heart..? (-:

I have posted this pic before, it was taken back in the days of film cameras with a mechanical time delay, an early selfie if you will, camera balanced on a rock...No one else was mad enough to be there with me on a m/cycle...(-:

Typing of mad on a m/cycle, have you watched Itchy Boots on YT, she is currently riding across Mongolia.... Amazing young lady..!

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